Two summer views from our son’s driveway in Eastern Washington.
We’ve had some nice mild summer weather during our stay here. We are enjoying the cool nights with our bedroom window open. I woke up this morning to a rooster call in the distance. We are definitely in the country.
Linking up with Tom for The Barn Collective.
These are barns I’ve taken photos of over the last 3 months but haven’t shared. They are all located in the Colville area of Washington State.
Linking up with Tom for The Barn Collective.
On Saturday we drove to the north end of Whidbey Island to visit Ebey State Park and to enjoy a meal in Coupeville, Washington.
The weather was beautiful which brought out the crowds. Our realtor was having an open house at our home so we had to be away from our home for several hours and we took advantage of the weather to enjoy a short hike at Ebey and have some Penn Cove Mussels in Coupeville. I’ll post our photos from our walk/hike at Ebey and some photos from Coupeville tomorrow or later.
Linking up with Tom for The Barn Collective.
…for The Barn Collective
This was taken back in the middle of December on our trip to La Conner. We arrived to Skagit County early so we took a detour along the farm roads close to Mt. Vernon before we continued on to La Conner.
Linking up to The Barn Collective with Tom The Backroads Traveller. Click over to see more barns.
Our Sunday has started out cold with beautiful sun breaks and then some popcorn snow. Not enough snow here to cover anything. Some areas of Washington state are getting a lot. Our daughter-in-law sent us this photo of our son and son-in-law in the front yard of our middle son’s home in Northeastern Washington. They had a nice walk in the snow. All of our children are spending a weekend together in this winter wonderland. Praying for safe travels for them tomorrow.
Do you do anything special on our long President’s Weekend here in the USA?
We spotted these red barns on Conway Hill road in Skagit County back in December of 2017.
Linking up with Tom The Backroads Traveller for The Barn Collective.
Back to the present. We had a wonderful time catching up with our Western Washington kids over a belated birthday dinner for our son Josh.
Looking forward to some plans and ideas that we came up with to make moving easier for everyone! We also enjoyed lots of good food.
Appetizers, then salad and on to the main course of rack of lamb with rice pilaf ending with chocolate cake and ice cream.
How was your weekend? Was it quiet or filled with activity?
Some in great condition…
Others that are weathering and needing a little love. These are from Skagit Valley on the morning of December 11th. The morning was a little foggy/misty.
Linking up with Tom The Backroads Traveller for The Barn Collective.
Quiet Sunday except for a nice windy storm blowing through. A good day for indoor projects. After a sleepless time from 1am until after 3am I slept right through our usual church service. We listened to a sermon online. My two kitchen experiments, a savory one and a sweet one, failed. Oops. They were edible but nothing I’d share with y’all. Hope your weekend is ending well.
These photos were taken on December 11th on our way to La Conner for an overnight. We drove some back roads from Conway to Skagit City. Skagit Valley is known for their Tulip Festival and Daffodils, too. Next time I’ll share the red barns.
Linking up with Tom The Backroads Traveller for The Barn Collective.
We’ve been so happy to have two sunny days in a row here in Western Washington. Today I enjoyed a walk along the Burke Gilman Trail with my friend Beth after church. This week I’ve been getting out between rain showers to continue pruning our apple tree. I can only do a little at a time, just as much as my neck can take. It’s a looking up kind of job. It was nice to do the pruning in the sunshine yesterday and today. In the photo above the branches that are growing straight up still need to be cut.
The work on our master bath continues with forward progress but we are still weeks away from completion. We’ve picked the tile for the shower and all the fixtures. We also have the flooring chosen. The electrical is done. What’s going on at your house?
…with mist and clouds and barns! When we left Colville on December 18th for our 6 hour drive home we stopped at the top of the kids’ driveway to take our favorite view from this spot.
Here’s a close up of the barn in the previous view. It’s crumbling slowly.
It was a misty moisty morning with low lying clouds or fog which made for interesting backdrops for the barns and farms we flew by.
We were happy to have chosen this day to return home instead of Tuesday since there was a snowfall of 14 inches after we left!
On this past Saturday my Western Washington girls and my sister had a fun day in downtown Seattle. We met up for brunch/lunch and then walked to the 5th Avenue Theater for the Sing-A-Long Sound of Music. This explains the name for my combination post for the Barn Collective and life as it happened this weekend.
It really was a blast. We were given props and prompts to interact throughout the movie and it really was fun singing our hearts out. We hissed, we booed, we cheered, we bowed and of course we sang along on every song. Among our props we were given a popper that we were instructed to pop when the Captain and Maria kissed in the gazebo. So much fun especially since there was a young girl in front of us who kept us entertained with her spot on interaction throughout the show!
Linking up to The Barn Collective with Tom The Backroads Traveller.
Before I forget about these leftover photos of barns and critters I’m posting them for Eileen’s Saturday Critters and Tom’s Barn Collective. The two farm structures above were taken on some back roads October 6th in Skagit County.
On October 28th I took several fall photos in our yard and this sweet robin stayed still for a couple of photos.
The photos above of the Canadian Geese on the Sammamish River in Bothell were taken back on October 29th while we walked the Wayne Golf course.
These next three photos with barns were taken in Colville, Washington on November 17th.
The view above is from our son’s driveway looking out to Colville. I like to take this shot every time we visit to see how it changes in every season.
On our way home from Colville on November 20th we saw a few rainbows and this one happens to be over the nice red barn in the distance. I took this one with my cell phone.
I’ll soon be linking up to Eileen’s Saturday Critters and to Tom’s Barn Collective.
Have a great weekend everyone!
A month ago we drove to La Conner in Skagit County for lunch with a friend. On the way home we took a back road and saw these red barns and others I’ll share later. Looks like this one above is a gym.
Linking up with Tom for The Barn Collective.
We had a busy couple of days with special overnight guests, our daughter-in-law, Addy and Granny great. They are on snowy roads heading home today.
We had to hurry out and take the patio covers down on Friday when the first snow came down so they wouldn’t get torn by the heavy snow. We draped them over the privacy fence until they dry and we can fold them up and put them away until late Spring. We were surprised again to see snow this morning. So early and out of the ordinary for our area. Have you had snow yet?
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 